Quotes About Culture

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead.

We say arts education is good for general education, but that's not the point. The arts are what great nations are remembered for. They are a mirror.

History is rich knowledge. In your travel, learn brief history of the place visited.

Don't tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you traveled.

I'd been exposed to alternate ways of thinking and it seriously affected the way my mother had reared me.

Culture and collars had gone together, to him, and he had been deceived into believing that college educations and mastery were the same things.

A gentleman need not know Latin but he should at least have forgotten it.

The Jews have always been students and their greatest study is themselves.

There was one emotional outlet my people always had when they had the blues. That was singing.

The more scholastically educated a man is generally, the more he is an emotional boor.

Singapore has been incredibly well-managed. It was created out of the swamp, with a strong emotional idea: a safe place for mostly Chinese, but accepting other cultures and other races.

People from North India are generally known to be aggressive and emotional.

Sixteen years I've pounded my head against the mentality of America, which...I'd say it's about an 8th grade emotional level.

Hollywood has turned into an emotional Detroit.

Artists are the emotional historians of the world.

Kitsch offers instantaneous emotional gratification without intellectual effort, without the requirement of distance, wihtout sublimation.

We need emotional outlets in this country, and the more artistic people we develop the better it will be for us as a nation.

I don't like China. Even today, I still feel I have no emotional relations with this place.

My mum is Croatian, and obviously she's female and she's very emotional, very hot-blooded, very touchy-feely, whereas I think my dad's quite British.

You can take the boy out of England, but you can't take England out of the boy. And ummm, yes, I feel a huge emotional attachment to England.

The most important environmental issue is one that is rarely mentioned, and that is the lack of a conservation ethic in our culture.

There is no way to re-enchant our lives in a disenchanted culture except by becoming renegades from that culture and planting the seeds for a new one.

American culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wrought by war and crime and environmental havoc.

Environmental issues are on everyone's mind. It's part of our culture now and I can only applaud and laud anyone who is doing what they can and raising awareness.